Sabrina Ortengren had almost no hope when she and her husband Jay sat down with an autism therapy provider in Evergreen in 2022.
All of the specialized schools in their home state of Virginia had deemed their son Ethan’s needs too severe to manage. The family had made the three-day journey west based on reports that autism services in Colorado would be better, but in the upheaval of a move, Ethan had gotten worse and thrown his father into a wall.
After a week in Children’s Hospital Colorado, he was doing better, but she couldn’t imagine anyone would want to work with a 14-year-old with the build of a lineman and a history of aggression…